CoD: Modern Warfare 4 Arrives To Warzone With New Maps, Movement, And Features

New Warzone maps

For Season 1, DMZ’s Hajin will launch as Warzone’s large standard battle royale map, while Zodiac arrives as the smaller Resurgence map. All other Warzone maps will be removed from the game.

Hajin features the same points-of-interest as the DMZ version of the map, and it will also include the mode’s dynamic weather with rain and fog. However, the battle royale version of the map will feature Warzone’s 1v1 Gulag arena, and there will be two Gulag layouts for players to experience.

Verdansk and Rebirth Island will both return later in the season, allowing a rotation of maps for both battle royale and Resurgence modes. Black Ops 7’s Avalon and the Fortune’s Keep Resurgence map are not expected to return.

New Warzone features

Zipline Launcher

Season 1 adds the new Zipline Launcher, which is a device that players can use to create anchors and a zipline for traversing Warzone’s various terrain. Once deployed, the Zipline Launcher will remain active on the map until it’s either retrieved or destroyed.

Grabber Drone

The Grabber Drone is a rare drone equipped with a device capable of picking up various loot, environmental objects, and even operators. Players can use this drone to pick up a downed teammate and move them closer for a revive, retrieve difficult to reach weapons and other items, and even retrieve loot from a Buy Station.

Interactive objects

This new season adds interactive objects to Warzone’s map, including explosive fuel barrels, which can be picked up and placed in strategic ways. There are also several items players can move around the maps, such as dumpsters, cable spools, and construction equipment to either provide cover or block enemy pathways.

Additional gameplay adjustments

Other changes include gameplay adjustments:

• Tactical Sprint will be available to all Operators without the need for a perk, but its duration is slightly shortened
• Players can drag their allies while reviving them, pulling them out of harm’s way
• Additional weapon-balance tuning
• Improved visibility and readability across all maps
• Improved footstep audio

Activision says more details on these new gameplay adjustments and specific weapon tuning will arrive with Warzone’s Season 1 patch notes later in the week.

Warzone support ends for PS4 and Xbox One

As previously announced, Warzone will no longer be playable on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, as Modern Warfare 4 ditches the older generation of console hardware. Players will still keep progression if they return to a supported platform and use the same linked Activision account.

Operator-skin toggle

Warzone’s new operator-skin toggle feature is also arriving with Season 1. Warzone is currently filled with wacky skins and cel-shaded characters introduced in recent years, but players can toggle on a filter to remove any of these outlandish skins and replace them all with Modern Warfare 4 operators. The toggle also only impacts the user’s game, and it does not alter the experience of others. This new feature will be off by default.